We are interested in advancing fundamental understanding of interfacial and transport phenomena which span multiple length and time scales, as well as developing bio-inspiredmultifunctional materials and devices for energy and biomedical applications.

(9) September 2012, FYP Student Waitak Lau won the 3rd Prize in the Best Paper on Materials Record, Hong Kong Institute of Engineers. Congratulations, Waitak.

(8) September 2012, Xiaowen won the Best Paper Award in International Symposium on Optofluidics, 2012. Congratulations, Xiaowen.

(7) August 2012, Our work on the study of size effects of evaporation at superhydrophobic surfaces was accepted by Physical Review Letters. Congratulations to Xuemei. This is her second high-impact paper after she joined our group as a Ph.D. student in August 2010.

(6) September 23, 2011. Our work on dropwise condensation is highlighted in many media press, including

(5) September 1, 2011. Xuemei Chen's paper on the development of bio-inspired novel materials for heat transfer application has been accepted by Advanced Functional Materials (2011 Impact factor: 10.2) and highted as Front Cover. Xuemei joined our lab in August 2010. Congratulations, Xuemei!

(4) Our work on microfluidic chip for point of care diagnostics is featured in Chemical & Engineering News.

(3) Our work on boiling heat transfer on nanostructured surface is featured in Nature News(doi: 10.1038/news.2008.935)

(2) Our work on carbon nanotube membrane is featured in Membrane Technology and Wiki (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nanotube_membrane)

(1) Our work about superhydrophobic surafces is featured in Photonics Spectra (http://www.photonics.com/Content/ReadArticle.aspx?ArticleID=30648)